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'His spirit is not among the land of the dead. He cannot be seen in this world, though. He is here on this world, but somewhere I cannot detect. I searched for some time, and could not feel his presence. Someone has him somewhere where there are powerful magics at play. Magics more powerful than mine.' The old sage replied. 'If this is true, than we will be going into somewhere where we will fight. This is why I ready for war. It will come, and I know it will. Battle will be wherever we end up.'

The warrior-sage opened a pouch, and put some more ingredients into it, and grabbed a few scrolls, placing them in scroll-cases on his belt. 'We cannot let ourselves think there will be no fighting. That will be foolish, and get us killed. We must be prepared.'

'I am unsure, Kerrigan. I do not remember him telling me of any enemies he had, or has. I do not know anything about his family, so I cannot say if his family made any enemies, either.' the sage replied. 'All I can say is we must find whoever is behind this, and retrieve our Omega.'

He started for the door, to return to the General Areas.

Kerrigan walked into the room, looking rather disheveled. She practically slammed the door behind her, glad to leave that Janine and her knights alone for the time being. She had more important things to deal with.

"Uncle," she called out, stepping quickly into the room and looking around.

Kerrigan listened to the explanation of who and what Astaroth was in silence as the elderly man came out. She was glad that he had been doing his research.

"I don't think the Tainted have Krii," she said simply, walking over to a stool and sitting down, running her hands back over her tired face.

"It just doesn't make any sense. Especially when we were under a sort of alliance with them. And, the Tainted elder and Krii have always had a mutually respectful relationship with one another." She looked up to him to see what it was he thought, though she was sure that he would agree with her. Hopefully she would not be the only one to see this.

Kerrigan's eyes went side slightly as she made the connection. This was horrible. She heaved a great sigh, a soft whimper escaping her in her moment of weakness. She was glad it was only Uncle who was around now to see her broken. She was tired, she was lonely, she was confused, and now she was worried. Still, Kerrigan would not show this side of herself to anyone but the elderly man in front of her. He would be the only one to see her in her moment of darkness.

"So, what do we do," she asked, genuinely not sure. With the arrival of the Vatican, she was unsure which of the hunters she should trust and which she should not. The ones who were openly against the Vaitcan being there were not ready for such a dangerous mission, she could not work with Tokeru without wanting to rip his head off, and Edith would follow the Vatican if her life depended on it. Right now, it did. Kerrigan knew that she could not take this being on by herself, and she felt as if there was no one that was going to help her voluntarily.

"Any idea who we can trust," she asked, as a sort of tack on to her previous question.

"I want him back," Kerrigan said immediately, fanged bared as she rounded on the man. There was no question in her mind. However, she was having a hard time seeing how the two of them could take down a being of that strength without help from anyone. Not to mention, someone would have to keep an eye on things here and make sure that the Vatican was really looking for the leaders and not simply using it as a ruse to keep people happy while they really just took over.

"He would want the Hunters safe," she said, the anger disappearing from her eyes as she stood from the stool. The Vatican was making Kerrigan completely uncomfortable. Normally, she would have left, no problem, but she felt an obligation to the other hunters to keep the Vatican in her eye for any funny business. She was not a leader, but she had been with the Hunters longer than any of them, and she would be damned before she let something happen to them on her watch.

"Uncle, I need you to tell me that the two of us could get him back," she said, looking at the old man with almost pleading eyes.

God, how Kerrigan wanted to go after Krii. She needed him. Still, she knew in the back of her mind that the old man was right. Haven needed them now, and it would be selfish of her to go out on her own when there was so much to do here.

"For now, I'll stay around Haven and see what I can find out about these knights. Uncle, maybe you can see if there is a connection between them and this Astaroth? Something is not right about them being here. They do not even have the Pope's permission," she said, forgetting that Uncle had not been there to hear her conversation with Janine.